Treasure Chest Thursdays: Mulberry Bower
Posted by Liv | Filed under Photos, Routt, Surname, Treasure Chest Thursdays
t was during one of my visits home in 1998 that I came across the “5 Generations” photo that I featured for Wordless Wednesday on 23 March 2011. That photo featuring my 97 year old great-great-grandmother (Lula Routt Green) is what launched my research into my father’s side of my family tree. So based on a [...]
Tags: ancestors, Chappel Hill, cotton planter, family history, family photo, J. W. Routt, Mulberry Bower, plantation, routt, Routt House, slavery, texas
Wordless Wednesday: In Mom’s Shadow
Posted by Liv | Filed under Photos, Surname, Taylor, Wordless Wednesdays
Tags: brother, carrie, family photo, Jon, mom, taylor, wordless wednesday
Sentimental Sunday: Carrie Blanton
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
It’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. Carrie Blanton was born February 28, 1883 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas to Carey and Alice Bailey Blanton. Like her parents and eleven [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blanton, chapple, cook, eagle lake, family history, family photo, houston, laundress, maternal great-grandmother, servant, surname, texas
